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It's a shame, because I think SB can be good, but he hasn't had much opportunity to be as Sonny's flunky. Maybe they can retcon that Shawn and TJ's father looked alike (like Nik/Connor levels of identical), then he can be revealed to be alive, and SB can start over in a non-Sonny suck up role. (Yeah, I know, never happening.)

I agree with this. They shouldn't get a free pass to run rough shod over the writers just because they "know" their character best. But, the writers should be willing to listen and consider their take if they feel strongly that their character would not act in a certain manner. You can't let someone who's popping into the writer's or producer's office on a weekly basis sway you, but if someone who doesn't generally complain speaks up and says "hey, I know I'm just the actor, but, after playing this character for 20 years, I firmly believe that she would NEVER do this, and here's why..." then I think the writer needs to at least engage in a conversation to try and get to a point where the story can go on but the actor doesn't think their character is being ruined to move the story along. But, ultimately, it is up to the writer, because they're the ones who have to take responsibility for what's on the page, and if their continued employment is at least partially contingent on the quality of their writing, then the writing we see on our screens should theirs. The nature of this business is that you have a LOT of actors who have been around playing the same character through multiple writing regimes, spanning many years, even multiple decades. So they are going to know their characters more completely than some writers will. A good writer will take that input into consideration, weigh it against their planned story line, and figure out what is best for the show. A bad writer will either ignore all instances of input from actors or let some actors dictate whatever they want. I live in the Chicago area. A guy my husband used to work with has been in a relationship for years with a woman who is on the writing staff of Y&R. She lives and works out here and ventures out to L.A. here and there. (And my husband's former co-worker gets to go to the Daytime Emmy ceremony every year, which is so cool).

Can Cameron start him on fire? I kind of miss firebug Cam. (And then he can set Spencer's Hugh Hefner smoking jacket collection on fire, while he's at it.)

Britt Sam

As much as Sam can, at times, annoy the hell out of me, I won't lie, I'd watch that.

I heard it was actually only old ladies holding babies or puppies. Things get SO distorted when they go through various sources.

I would think so, as long as you spoiler-tagged any parts of it that might relate to upcoming events on air.

It might make her melancholy. "I miss Jason so much. I remember how we laughed and laughed together when we found out my husband had been raped."

Did she grab him on the red carpet to pose for pictures with her to keep Sonny away from her side?

I'd love if ALL of that stuff comes up when Michael finds out about AJ. It can start with Michael knocking down the idea that he was ever "better off" with Sonny than AJ as his father. Michael throwing all the many ways he's suffered because he's Sonny's son would be so cathartic for those of us who have had to sit through years of propaganda about what a great father Sonny is versus "miserable drunken loser" AJ.

If they want to whitewash Nina, they should have her "save" a kid I actually cared was missing. And I agree with those who said we'll most likely still have Spencer on screen, at minimum, via text messages to Britt. (Which I guess would be somewhat better, since they don't involve a little kid having to creepily say those lines himself).

Ron may as well fully go for it - he's not even Australian. Those Immigration officials? Actors he hired. He grabbed Nathan's phone one day, dialed the number and either hung up or had a short conversation asking some harmless question (so the call log would show that there was actual time spent on the call). Then he hired those guys to come to the apartment and make a scene. It gets Nathan out of his hair and pushes Maxie to marry him.

Britt Sam

And Sonny was largely responsible for Michael ending up in prison in the first place. Had he (along with Carly and Jason) not engaged in their absurd shenanigans to cover up what was, originally, a likely "In defense of others" case, the judge wouldn't have lost his shit all over them and sent Michael to prison to teach him (and his idiot family) a lesson. So Sonny's dumb ass sent Michael to prison and then ruined the deal Jason made to keep the kid protected there, and sat back and let Jason throw himself in prison, too, as a last ditch effort to try and clean up Sonny's mess, which, of course, happened too late to prevent Michael's rape. I'd LOVE if Michael, when he finds out about AJ, finally has that damn burst moment of clarity with regard to Sonny and throws his role in his prison rape right in his face. Oh, and I almost forgot, he's also the reason Michael even needed to conk Claudia over the head, since she was on a rampage after Sonny decided to publicly humiliate her. Every moment that Anna doesn't dump Duke's ass is painful. He's such a waste of a human being at this point, and Anna deserves WAY better.

I was going to post pretty much the same thing. Levi getting the Eli treatment (although I actually hated it happening to Eli, and I'll cackle with glee at it happening to Levi), will absolutely involve some scene of him wolfing down a rack of ribs or a big old porterhouse, cackling about his vegan ruse.

There's always been this absurd element of "man, why you bringing up old things?" to Sonny. I mean, he only shot Dante in the chest that ONE time, and had Olivia told him sooner that Dante was his son, he never would have done it.

I need at least one person onscreen to explain to the Moobster that you shouldn't want to kill a pregnant woman regardless of who the baby's father is. But, aside from that, in this particular case, if the baby isn't your child, it's still your grandchild, so your reason for not killing her, right this minute, should not solely be "that might be my baby she's carrying." Asshole.

Britt Brad Sam

That's one of the things that infuriates me the most. You bring back SK and then do that shit with him until he ultimately gets fed up enough to ask to leave. Yeah, I know, Ron had big, big plans for the AJ/Jason dynamic that went to shit when SBu took off, but, still. You had AJ Q, being played by the actor who is most associated with the role, reuniting with the son who was taken from him, reunited with a mother who has lost, literally, the rest of her family, and you make fat jokes, booze him back up, and then kill him off at the hands of the man who stole his son in the first place, with everyone believing he killed a woman he didn't kill. And the man who killed him will probably get no more punishment than being sent to bed without dessert...followed by Olivia feeling bad and sending some tiramisu up to his room, because, darn it, he looked so sad when he was throwing bar ware as he climbed up those stairs.

It was a joke...

Ron, dude, we all had a meeting, and we all think you're a self-important douchebag. I was elected to tweet you the results.

I think we decided that the ultimate survivor gets to off FrankenRon.

That's what I'm hoping for. It would be ridiculous if Scott has a decent amount of interaction with Fluke and doesn't realize he's not Luke. "You've been a good father to Kristina." Well, yeah, I mean, a bad father would have actually succeeded in blowing her up. Sonny only "almost" blew her up. Father of the fucking year, right there.

Dr. O Britt Sam

I can completely understand Tyler's being careful about what he eats. Hell, I can't just eat what I want like I could when I was a teen, either (and if Ronn can, I hate him a little). But, I agreed with Devin that it's not cool to put that attitude onto a little kid. Every little kid deserves to have chances to eat whipped cream from the can, chow down on a spoonful of cookie dough, etc. Yes, teach him about proper nutrition and all, but let him have some fun with food, too, instead of being beholden to strict calorie counting all the time. And, yes, even Tyler should be having a cheat day here and there. One day a week (or every other week) isn't going to wreck someone who has a healthy outdoor lifestyle.